Why the Working-Class, Socialist History of International Women’s Day Matters Today
On International Women’s Day, Katherine Connelly looks at its origins in the socialist and feminist movements led by working class women.
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The Women of South Asia Sing Their Defiance
An anthology of poems that embodies women’s struggle to escape the maleness of language, and the world itself.
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Farmers to Widen Protest; Join with Workers for Anti-Privatisation Day; Women Farmers Start Own Newsletter – Four Articles
Farmers decide to hold a ‘tractor march’ in 16 districts of UP and Uttarakhand, and simultaneously a padyatra too in UP; Central Trade Unions and farmers decide to observe anti-privatisation day on March 15; meanwhile, women farmers start their own newsletter at Delhi border.
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Farmers’ Protest Once Again Brings to Fore the Power of Women in Mass Mobilisations
No movement in India’s history – including the movement for independence from British colonial rule – saw this degree of participation by women.
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Letter from Feminists Calling Upon Chief Justice of India to Step Down for Asking Rapist to Marry Victim
Deeply distressed by the regressive statements of the CJI asking a rapist to marry the victim and condoning marital rape in court on 01 March 2021, over 4000+ concerned citizens issued an open letter to the CJI demanding an apology demanding that he down.
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Interview: Priya Ramani and Her Lawyer Rebecca John on #MeToo Movement’s First Big Win in India
Bhandari talks to Ramani and her lawyer, senior advocate Rebecca John, to understand the challenges they faced during the over two-year-long trial.
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Class, Gender, Race & Colonialism: The ‘Intersectionality’ of Marx
Many people believe that Marx was obsessed only with class and had little appreciation of how issues of gender, racism and colonialism inter-related with class and the struggle for human emancipation. The author says that Marx’s writings have been misrepresented.
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Rosa Parks and Equal Rights
On Rosa Parks Day, February 4th (her birthday date), let us commemorate the courageous action to defy racism that she undertook. It is only fitting that we celebrate her deed since public transportation became a civil right in the USA due to the struggle she led.
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Marxism and Feminism
In this extract from Marxism and Women’s Liberation, the author discusses Marxism’s contribution to analysing women’s oppression.
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The Global Struggle for Bodily Autonomy
An examination of the different ways bodily autonomy is denied in capitalist society, the role of social reproduction in the oppression of women, and the fight for our bodies globally.
